Il Vittoriano

Universally known as "The Wedding Cake" or "The Giant Typewriter," the Victory Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II at the very center of Rome is the hideously ugly monument you gotta love anyway

Il Vittoriano degli Italiani (Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II)
Piazza Venezia
tel. +39-06-699-1718
Open daily 9:30am–5:30pm (4:30pm in winter)

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The Vittoriano
The Monument to Victor Emmanuel II.Variously derided as "The Wedding Cake" or "The Giant Typewriter," the Monument to Victor Emmanuel II—Rome's blindingly white elephant of a commemorative pile of marble devoted to modern Italy's first king—became a whole lot friendlier in 2000 when they decided to reopen it to the public, free of charge.

Now you can scramble up the snowy white steps of "Il Vittoriano," past the guards on the eternal flame to Italy's unknown soldiers and numerous self-important relief carvings of events during Italy's 1860s/1870s Risorgimento unification movement, to the monstrous colonnade at the top.

The Vittoriano at night
The Vittoriano at night.Here, the views sweep across central Rome to the front, and across the Forum and Imperial Fori behind.

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